Wash and drain the rice. Shade dry the Rice for 1/2 hr. Dry roast the Urad dal to light brown. Allow it to cool.If you are using more quantity, you can get it ground in rice mil, else use your mixie to grind both Rice and Urad dal.

First grind rice into a fine flour, keep it aside. then grind the urad dal to fine powder.( I used rice flour and just fried urad dhal and powdered, but added little extra butter to make it soft)

In a wide vessel, take both the flours along with salt. Mix well. Add cumin, Sesame seeds to the flour, mix well.

Whether you use Asafetida powder or the solid ones, you got to mix it in water, make sure it is dissolved before adding to the flour. If its not dissolved properly, when deep frying the muruku, there are chances for the hing to burst our due to air bubbles.

Mix in the hing to the flour and finally add the butter. Gather everything well and you will get more of a crumbling mixture. Now slowly add water and knead a dough which is little more softer than the puri dough.

Heat a kadai with oil enough to deep fry. Once the oil is hot enough, simmer to low flame.

Take the Muruku Aachu, wash and wipe it clean. Then divide the dough into equal balls. Fill the Muruku maker with the dough. You can either press it directly over the flames or press over a paper and gently slide it down the hot oil. But since the quantity mentioned here is less, you can press it directly over the kadai.

Cook over medium flame, using a slotted spoon, turn it over to other side to ensure both sides turn golden colour. You will know by seeing the colour that its cooked. Remove to a kitchen paper and store it in a air tight container.

Dear All,thanks for all your concern and am being humbled with your love.

In fact,this is not a sudden decision,been thinking for a while now esp since my sinus have gone worse.Thank you all for supporting me and hope to meet you all at your own respective spaces.Love & have a great time..

Thanks Abhilash, Gita, Sush and GR..Abhilash Jantikalu is the name for murukku in Telugu :)Ann - I am really sorry about it... hope things get better soon and drop in sometimes.... but felt bad that the whole blog is now no more....

Thanks Abhilash again... that's true I broke to pieces and I did not make in circles like chakli... did pressed in the kadai in circular motion and took and brok to pieces :)Thanks Sadhana/Muskaan, Myethreyi, Lena and Valarmathi :)Thanks Malar- but don't know what is wrond with the comment section.... few days back was facing lot of problem - then I changed the comment format hoping it will be ok... will try to look for solution :)